IN YOUR OPINION

Letters to the Editor for Nov. 19, 2012

Published: Sunday, November 18, 2012 at 11:17 p.m.

Last Modified: Sunday, November 18, 2012 at 11:17 p.m.

Amendment confusion

Since I have been old enough to vote, I have voted. I take the privilege to vote very seriously and this year it was a nightmare.

The amendments were written in such a manner that I could not understand them. Thanks to the Star-Banner for their editorials and news articles, and because of their explanation of some, I was able to make my decisions.

Inez Guynn

Fairfield

Bring on the Yanks

As a longtime baseball and Yankee fan, I was pleased to read about the possible move of the Class A Tampa Yankees to Ocala. A release from the Yankees reported that the team draws about 1,600 fans per game in Tampa.

Because the baseball possibilities of Ocala are untapped, residents of Marion County currently have to head south if they want to attend minor league ball games. A move of the Tampa Yanks to Ocala would allow fans of many major league teams to see the young players in the farm systems of their favorite teams.

I'm all for it!!

Barry Davis

Ocala

Two thoughts

Two thoughts:

1. In order to keep Munroe Regional Medical Center locally owned, why not charge a small fee to park? There would be little cost to MRMC and just might save our hospital.

2. Not all entitlements are created equally. Social Security and Medicare have been paid into by workers. Please don't make me feel like I am “entitled” to these programs when I paid into them for my entire career (and before).

Dortha Johnston

Ocala

Stop the bashing

I ask my fellow Marion County residents to step back a bit with the rage and expansive diatribes on how our country is now going to “slip into hell” due to the re-election of President Obama. Your letters to the editor do not help our community or our country. All these letters do is drum up more divisiveness and anger that is completely unproductive.

The fact is that the majority of the people in our nation decided that Obama was the best bet. Indeed, the majority of the people in our own state voted for Obama.

This cannot be argued, the numbers are clear, so let's deal with it.

Let's get above disagreement/disappointment with election results and make our best moves to improve our own community.

Let's get letters to the editor that encourage our state to pursue getting Silver Springs into the hands of the public domain in order to protect our Floridan Aquifer.

Let's get positive with our campaigns and stop the bashing.

Deborah Wilson

Summerfield

The majority spoke

In the Nov. 10 Star-Banner there were letters to the misguided and misinformed (“Doomed”), people throwing their freedoms away (“Chains of government”) and a congratulatory letter to the Democrats (“A dying dream”) and all were basically lamenting the turning of the USA toward socialism and doom and the status of a third world country.

I've read letters from these same people well before the elections warning and crying and complaining about anything Democrat or anti-Republican. I would remind them that the majority of the voters have decided that they will keep the current administration. There could be some compelling reasons for this.

1. Your vastly superior intellect has caused the majority to panic and vote against you.

2. The majority doesn't believe you.

Maybe you should prod the obstructionist representatives and senators to get off their duffs and work toward securing our economy and the future of our nation. If you find the present situation too bleak for you to tolerate, pack your bags, gather up the entire cast of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and move to Canada or some place that will accommodate your superior knowledge and civil discontent. The majority spoke. Get over it.

Larry Ayers

Ocala

Places to cut

Assuming we all survive the predicted end of the World on Dec. 21, we will wake up the next day to the financial disaster looming on Dec. 31. They call it “falling of the cliff.” Most of the options center around either raising taxes and/or cutting domestic spending on social programs.

In my humble opinion, they should not do either one of those proposals.

They should reduce at least 25 percent of the defense budget. I just read that we spend more tax dollars on defense than all the other countries in the world combined. Next, they should stop with all the foreign aid that we send to Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan — immediately!

For those countries as well as the Halliburton Corp., it's just another pay day. American foreign aid will not ever change anything in Islamic nations. The imams will never relinquish one ounce of control over their Muslim faithful.

The tax dollars saved by my two suggestions should just about eliminate the deficit.

David Bailey

Ocala

In search of giveaways

You can name all the strategies that President Barack Obama used to win the election, but when you get to the bottom line, all the blacks and Latinos who stood in line for hours are the ones who elected him.

Those 47 percent-plus who are leaching the government for free money, food stamps, phony disability claims, etc. I'm sure you can name all the giveaways. They were scared to death that Mitt Romney would take all that away.

We are now on our way to a socialist nation. What a big mistake putting this guy back in the White House.

<p><b>Amendment confusion</b></p><p>Since I have been old enough to vote, I have voted. I take the privilege to vote very seriously and this year it was a nightmare.</p><p>The amendments were written in such a manner that I could not understand them. Thanks to the Star-Banner for their editorials and news articles, and because of their explanation of some, I was able to make my decisions. </p><p><i>Inez Guynn</p><p>Fairfield</i></p><p><b>Bring on the Yanks</b></p><p>As a longtime baseball and Yankee fan, I was pleased to read about the possible move of the Class A Tampa Yankees to Ocala. A release from the Yankees reported that the team draws about 1,600 fans per game in Tampa.</p><p>Because the baseball possibilities of Ocala are untapped, residents of Marion County currently have to head south if they want to attend minor league ball games. A move of the Tampa Yanks to Ocala would allow fans of many major league teams to see the young players in the farm systems of their favorite teams.</p><p>I'm all for it!!</p><p><i>Barry Davis</p><p>Ocala </i></p><p><b>Two thoughts</b></p><p>Two thoughts:</p><p>1. In order to keep Munroe Regional Medical Center locally owned, why not charge a small fee to park? There would be little cost to MRMC and just might save our hospital.</p><p>2. Not all entitlements are created equally. Social Security and Medicare have been paid into by workers. Please don't make me feel like I am “entitled” to these programs when I paid into them for my entire career (and before).</p><p><i>Dortha Johnston</p><p>Ocala</i></p><p><b>Stop the bashing</b></p><p>I ask my fellow Marion County residents to step back a bit with the rage and expansive diatribes on how our country is now going to “slip into hell” due to the re-election of President Obama. Your letters to the editor do not help our community or our country. All these letters do is drum up more divisiveness and anger that is completely unproductive.</p><p>The fact is that the majority of the people in our nation decided that Obama was the best bet. Indeed, the majority of the people in our own state voted for Obama.</p><p>This cannot be argued, the numbers are clear, so let's deal with it.</p><p>Let's get above disagreement/disappointment with election results and make our best moves to improve our own community.</p><p>Let's get letters to the editor that encourage our state to pursue getting Silver Springs into the hands of the public domain in order to protect our Floridan Aquifer.</p><p>Let's get positive with our campaigns and stop the bashing.</p><p><i>Deborah Wilson</p><p>Summerfield</i></p><p><b>The majority spoke</b></p><p>In the Nov. 10 Star-Banner there were letters to the misguided and misinformed (“Doomed”), people throwing their freedoms away (“Chains of government”) and a congratulatory letter to the Democrats (“A dying dream”) and all were basically lamenting the turning of the USA toward socialism and doom and the status of a third world country.</p><p>I've read letters from these same people well before the elections warning and crying and complaining about anything Democrat or anti-Republican. I would remind them that the majority of the voters have decided that they will keep the current administration. There could be some compelling reasons for this.</p><p>1. Your vastly superior intellect has caused the majority to panic and vote against you.</p><p>2. The majority doesn't believe you.</p><p>Maybe you should prod the obstructionist representatives and senators to get off their duffs and work toward securing our economy and the future of our nation. If you find the present situation too bleak for you to tolerate, pack your bags, gather up the entire cast of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and move to Canada or some place that will accommodate your superior knowledge and civil discontent. The majority spoke. Get over it.</p><p><i>Larry Ayers</p><p>Ocala</i></p><p><b>Places to cut</b></p><p>Assuming we all survive the predicted end of the World on Dec. 21, we will wake up the next day to the financial disaster looming on Dec. 31. They call it “falling of the cliff.” Most of the options center around either raising taxes and/or cutting domestic spending on social programs.</p><p>In my humble opinion, they should not do either one of those proposals.</p><p>They should reduce at least 25 percent of the defense budget. I just read that we spend more tax dollars on defense than all the other countries in the world combined. Next, they should stop with all the foreign aid that we send to Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan — immediately! </p><p>For those countries as well as the Halliburton Corp., it's just another pay day. American foreign aid will not ever change anything in Islamic nations. The imams will never relinquish one ounce of control over their Muslim faithful.</p><p>The tax dollars saved by my two suggestions should just about eliminate the deficit.</p><p><i>David Bailey</p><p>Ocala</i></p><p><b>In search of giveaways</b></p><p>You can name all the strategies that President Barack Obama used to win the election, but when you get to the bottom line, all the blacks and Latinos who stood in line for hours are the ones who elected him.</p><p>Those 47 percent-plus who are leaching the government for free money, food stamps, phony disability claims, etc. I'm sure you can name all the giveaways. They were scared to death that Mitt Romney would take all that away.</p><p>We are now on our way to a socialist nation. What a big mistake putting this guy back in the White House.</p><p><i>John Farector</p><p>Ocala</i></p>